Senior Business Analyst

Position Overview

ALTEN is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support Airbus's strategic shopfloor application migration initiative in Kinston, North Carolina. This is a highly visible role supporting the transition of manufacturing applications inherited from Spirit AeroSystems to Airbus-supported solutions.

As a Senior Business Analyst, you will serve as the critical link between manufacturing operations, Digital teams, IT organizations, and business stakeholders. You will be responsible for gathering, documenting, validating, and managing business requirements while ensuring minimal disruption to production operations during the migration process.

This role requires a hands-on professional who is comfortable spending significant time on the manufacturing floor working directly with operators, supervisors, quality teams, and engineers to understand real-world processes and translate business needs into actionable requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead requirements gathering workshops with Production, Engineering, Quality, Operations, and IT stakeholders.
• Analyze existing manufacturing applications and support migration, replacement, or redevelopment decisions.
• Observe shopfloor operations and identify gaps between documented procedures and actual business practices.
• Create and maintain Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), functional specifications, process flows, and supporting documentation.
• Define and document functional and non-functional requirements.
• Ensure requirements are thoroughly reviewed, validated, and approved by stakeholders.
• Support application assessments related to business value, production impact, dependencies, and operational risk.
• Collaborate with project teams on testing strategies, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), data migration activities, cutover planning, and rollback procedures.
• Facilitate discussions with stakeholders and challenge proposed solutions when business justification is unclear.
• Communicate project status, risks, issues, and decision points to leadership and project sponsors.
• Mentor and provide guidance to junior Business Analysts.
• Support change management initiatives and business readiness activities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 7 years of hands-on Business Analyst experience supporting enterprise applications.
• Demonstrated experience authoring Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) and functional specifications.
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders throughout the requirements lifecycle.
• Strong knowledge of business process analysis, requirements elicitation, documentation, and validation.
• Experience in manufacturing, industrial, production, or shopfloor environments.
• Experience supporting at least one enterprise application migration, modernization, replacement, or implementation through go-live.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills.
• Ability to work full-time onsite in Kinston, NC.

Preferred Qualifications

• Aerospace or aviation manufacturing experience.
• Experience working with SAP, particularly SAP PP (Production Planning) and SAP QM (Quality Management).
• Experience with Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and other shopfloor applications.
• Knowledge of data migration strategies and cutover planning.
• Experience supporting user training and organizational change management efforts.
• Experience working within Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid SDLC environments.
• Familiarity with manufacturing operations, production planning, quality systems, and engineering workflows.

Desired Skills & Competencies

• Business Requirements Documentation (BRD)
• Functional Requirements Analysis
• Process Mapping & Process Improvement
• Stakeholder Management
• Manufacturing Operations
• Shopfloor Systems
• SAP PP / SAP QM
• MES Applications
• Data Migration
• User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Risk Assessment & Mitigation
• Change Management
• Agile & SDLC Methodologies
• Cross-Functional Leadership
• Root Cause Analysis
• Requirements Traceability

Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.